you 'ain't seen me ..: 2012

Friday 21 December 2012

more Dexys ..

So we waited 13 years for Cable to return
and 27 years for Dexys (K.R.) new album.
I guess Kevin's one of those you love or hate,
who cares, me and Kermode love him ..

KRO

Tuesday 18 December 2012

Dexy....

is madder than ever, but who's the girl?
Wow, wow, and thrice wow ...
I really, really love this vid...
bet y/tube remove it .
KRO

Monday 10 December 2012

500 days .....

Don't know why I watched this film, well actually
there's two reasons I did. One is Zooey, wow, I'd
die tomorrow for just one kiss, and two is the sound
track, thought it was cool.
KRO

Friday 24 August 2012

Well not many of us wanted the Olympics here, it was an obscene
waste of money and was just for London and the great and the good,
but feckin' hell, wasn't it brilliant?
Apart from a few mates on STB, no-one knows that some of my
work was centre stage in the "greatest show on earth," (I made the
inflatables for Voldemort, he's the 70' evil guy in a black hooded
cloak and the fat ugly Queen of hearts in a bed) Have to say I wasn't
impressed with what I made but then I never am, however now it's
it's all over and, to know that I was part of such a huge event well,
it's not a bad feeling.... did anybody get a ticket?

Friday 10 August 2012

.. just one more ...

Parkinson's law ...

So...Not to be confused with Parkinson's Law of Triviality. Parkinson's law is the adage first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson as part of the first sentence of a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955:[1][2] Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. It was later reprinted together with other essays in the book Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress (London, John Murray, 1958). He derived the dictum from his extensive experience in the British Civil Service. The current form of the law is not that which Parkinson refers to by that name in the article. Rather, he assigns to the term a mathematical equation describing the rate at which bureaucracies expand over time. Much of the essay is dedicated to a summary of purportedly scientific observations supporting his law, such as the increase in the number of employees at the Colonial Office while Great Britain's overseas empire declined (indeed, he shows that the Colonial Office had its greatest number of staff at the point when it was folded into the Foreign Office because of a lack of colonies to administer). He explains this growth by two forces: (1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals" and (2) "Officials make work for each other." He notes in particular that the total of those employed inside a bureaucracy rose by 5-7% per year "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done". In 1986, Alessandro Natta complained about the swelling bureaucracy in Italy. Mikhail Gorbachev responded that "Parkinson's Law works everywhere".[3]

Me? I have no work right now, so how much time have I got?
Who cares, here's the timeless, ageless, magical Cyndi....

Thursday 26 July 2012

... youtube ....

... well cut off my legs and call me shorty ......

Friday 29 June 2012

O mio babbino caro ..

Opera, classical music, great authors, I study nor 'learn' any of these,
but I do listen and read them. If I am quizzed on them my answers
are not very informative, as my memory is crapp and I sound pretty
simple. However, the joy of this is that when I return to such things
then the pleasure is as new as the first time I read/listened to them.
.... So it follows that this may be wrong, but...
A young girl falls in love with a young boy, for what ever reason
her family oppose the affair, heartbroken, she makes one last plea...
" O my beloved father ... "